Waylaid on the Road to Riches

Y2K Haiku

TIM KEARNEY

The end of the world?
Screw making my loan payments
What does default mean?

MICHAEL SHATTNER

5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1
pause in anticipation
what a non-event

SHANNON KNIGHT (WHO IS IN CHARGE OF Y2K READINESS AT HER COMPANY)

The end of the world
should be the end, period.
I still have to work.

Year 2000 bugs
are hunted down and destroyed
If there's still power.

Our work here is done;
All Y2K teams rejoice.
I'll collapse right here.

The millennium
is greatly celebrated.
(but it starts NEXT year)

SAILOR JACK

Rat hole lots of bucks...
The big glitch year is coming...
Mechanized mayhem...

I must not forget...
Dates have a different digit...
All now start with two...

ROXANA HADAD

glitch in the system
not such a happy new year
armageddon now

She alone reads them
Why to Kay all Y2K?
Let's haiku d'etat.

JEAN DANIELSON

Damn Damn Damn Damn Damn
ATM gives no money
Damn Damn Damn Damn Damn

KRISTEN FREILICH

no heat no water
dirty bodies in blankets
at least we have sex

where are the canned goods
dinty moore makes a mean meal
stockpiled in basement

a bug in the head
psychopaths' wasted anguish
wish for a spider

SCOTT BOULWARE

The Millenium
Really still a year away
What's all the hub-bub?